Pay it Forward

Now I didn't see the 'Pay it Forward' movie - but I think this fits the concept.
Colin does a good deed with his Portrait school, for 'random' folks here who cannot send him a nice bottle of red because a) he doesn't drink & b) we don't know his address.
So he is doing a favour it advance rather than 'paying it back'.......
So when one of the Teacher's here said her son's team had made the footy final on the weekend. I did a 'Colin' and spent a very pleasant morning out with my 200mm & 2x converter

So I thought I'd share some of the results with you guys.
We in the sports threads have been speaking recently about getting the ball in the frame, is it alwyas necessary etc....it is much easier outdoors & with this size ball too of course!
but what I tried to do as well, was shoot things like the score board every so often, the Coach & bench etc to try and make a series showing all facets of the event.

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Great series Kay.

I was at the battle of Croke Park in Dublin in 2006 when the Aussie Rules and Gaelic Football combined rules game started in total mayhem and violence and continued like that for the whole of the game. We had been over with the Scottish shinty team (see www.shinty.com) playing Irish hurlers in our version of the combined rules.

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Kay

I hope you don't mind me doing this. But as a lover (and former player many years ago) of a very physical team sport, I have to confess to feeling that the best sport is where the hard edge of competition is evident. I understand the argument that it's about taking part and about reaping the benefit of exercise. But the fire that comes from competition is where it's at, so long as it doesn't take over one's life and become something anti-social, like it does for so many soccer 'supporters' particularly in west central Scotland.

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Originally Posted by Donald

Kay

I hope you don't mind me doing this. But as a lover (and former player many years ago) of a very physical team sport, I have to confess to feeling that the best sport is where the hard edge of competition is evident. I understand the argument that it's about taking part and about reaping the benefit of exercise. But the fire that comes from competition is where it's at, so long as it doesn't take over one's life and become something anti-social, like it does for so many soccer 'supporters' particularly in west central Scotland.

But part of your image just summed up what it's about.

I don't mind at all Donald - & one thing we are still thankful for here is we can have 80 - 90 thousand fans at the big games and yet we don't need to segregate the supporters to different areas of the ground for their own safety.